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It's a Esox niger. Used to catch em in the Ross Barnett. Which means their in the da Pearl
Chain pickerel. Caught some at Indian Creek campground years ago. True, unusual. where and on what?
I've caught a couple in finch lake which the ouachita river backs into from time to time but that's the only ones I've caught.
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We call them jack fish around here. They're everywhere. I've caught tons of them in the summertime in the shallow sloughs. They fight!
Grew up in Mass. and they're as common as shiners. Chain Pickerel
Knew what it was from working in ichthyology lab, just never thought I'd see it here.
Came from a buddys' hoop net.
Really exciting to me.
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The 'ole Southern Pike! They love to hit a Rogue in shallow water. I have eat some before but it has to be cut real thin and fried to crystallize all the tiny bones.
Here's one of his northern cousins. This one was caught on the Detroit River while jigging for walleye in the spring. Went 32". They are my favorite fish for eating and they fight like crazy. I caught one out of a local river that was 26" and it had a 11 1/2" sucker in it's stomach.Attachment 257519Attachment 257520
How do you clean the fish and deal with all the bones?Quote:
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Caught a few at Chicot State Park years ago, hopefully they're gone
At first I thought it was a muskie which are common around me in central ohio haven't ever caught a pike
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It's hard to fillet the bones out of the small ones, anything under 20" or so. Some people will grind these and make fish cakes out of them, I've canned them and have a friend that pickles it. On the bigger fish, I zipper the fillets, which is splitting the fillet length ways on the natural " seam " in the fillet then zippering out the mud line. The Y bones will be in only one of the pieces and if you use a sharp knife you can follow the bones and remove them fairly easily from the other piece. You could zipper the small ones and have one boneless piece and grind or pickle the other bone in piece.
I hate those Y bones, great tasting fish......which method do you use to get rid of the Y bones?Quote:
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Oopps, I think I was asking the same time you was giving the answer
Yep, ole jackfish. They love a spinnerbait. Caught them all my life in northwest la. Funny how they haven't migrated farther south though.
The big one is a northern pike I believe
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Yes sir it is a northern pike. Not sure if a pike and a chain pickerel are the same.
Wow!!!Never seen one of them.
I'm amazed that so many from LA haven't ever caught a Jack Fish(chain pickerel). They're worse than gar in some of the swampy backwater sloughs. They love shallow water and will hit just about anything that moves. They look like a gar with a pike head. Man do they fight!